What if

When I used to encourage people to set up a living trust they would play the what if game. They would come up with all sorts of possible scenarios and ask, what if. This allowed them to postpone doing anything. This is playing out now in two areas. The first is if we allow abortions what if gay marriage is made illegal or what if trans children are sent to separate classrooms. More recently the homes of Supreme Court Justices are targeted and people are saying what if they ban mixed marriage and pass laws to hurt gays. They take an existing controversy and exaggerate it using the what if game. This doesn't help to understand the situation.